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Nick Sanders
Mar 29, 20242 min read
Blog 172 Springerville to Datil
27th March Winds are WNW early and sunny at Springerville, turning NW by the afternoon during the last 50 miles if I descend to Silver...
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Nick Sanders
Mar 29, 20241 min read
Blog 171 Holbrook to Springerville
25th March I was on the high plains all day, riding from Holbrook on Route 66 across to Springerville. It was a hard ride with the wind...
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Nick Sanders
Mar 26, 20242 min read
Blog 170 Payson to Holbrook
24th March At the top of the rim I am stuck in snow. It’s freezing, conditions almost nil visibility. Cars going past fast and close, the...
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Nick Sanders
Mar 26, 20242 min read
Blog 169 West Phoenix to Payson
23rd March Crossing the freeway exit south I heard birds in trees, nature in the city but this is about adventure; what do I do with my...
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Nick Sanders
Mar 25, 20243 min read
Blog 168 nr Buckeye to West Phoenix
22nd March I woke up, I'm camping in a 10,000 acre wilderness of bush and shrub owned by the Federal Government’s land agency. I had to...
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Nick Sanders
Mar 24, 20242 min read
Blog 167 Blyth to before Buckeye
21st March After the river crossing the road out to Quartzite turned into a power line track through the scrub. My schedule to meet end...
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Nick Sanders
Mar 24, 20243 min read
Blog 166 Box Canyon to Blyth
20th March What a delight it is to sleep in a canyon. I am hidden away in the silence lit by a half moon kissed by starlight. I got up in...
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Nick Sanders
Mar 21, 20243 min read
Blog 165 Banning to Box Canyon
19th March Banning was not having its best moment. Bail bond stores, 99 cent thrift shops, law centres and local shops mostly empty. On...
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Nick Sanders
Mar 19, 20244 min read
Blog 164 Los Angeles to Banning (USA)
18th March Finally the penultimate section of the journey from Los Angeles to New York. Depending on how south I ride so as to get the...
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Nick Sanders
Mar 10, 20241 min read
Blog 156 Mittagong to Sydney
3rd March The journey across Australia is complete. This is the first ever crossing of this mighty continent by electric bicycle. I'm...
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Nick Sanders
Mar 10, 20241 min read
Blog 155 Binalong to Mittagong
2nd March Kieran, cook at the Hotel Binalong gave me a couple of sandwiches wrapped in tin foil and I left along Fitzroy Street to the...
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Nick Sanders
Mar 9, 20241 min read
Blog 154 Grong Grong to Binalong
1st March I left in the dark and enjoyed the kookaburras waking up. Birds wake immediately and don’t transition slowly from their...
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